there in translating the scriptures | Three hundred Testaments have been dispatched to Sierra Leone and Goree; and a much larger number has been consigned to the care of the Rev. Mr, Marsden, for the benefit of the convicts in New South Wales. Your committee have also availed themselves of the offer of S. D. Street, esq. senior master in chancery for the province of New Brunswick, to take charge of a number of Bibles and New Testaments for the accommodation of several families in that province, where they were much wanted. into different dialects of India; nor have they yet received any acknowledgment of their resolution granting a donation of 2000 in aid of this desirable undertaking. They have it, however, under consideration to print an edition of the Tamulian version of the scriptures; and they availed themselves of their communication with Bengal to send 500 Bibles and 1000 Testaments, to be placed at the discretional disposal of the corresponding committee in that country, for sale or gratuitous distribution to the army and navy, and other The printing of an edition of poor Europeans. They have al- the scriptures in Arabic, adverso resolved that 250 German Bi-ted to in their last report, has not bles and 500 German New Testaments be sent from Haile to the German missionaries in India for the like purpose. escaped the attention of your committee; but the expense of this work, and a variety of important circumstances involved in the execution of it, are sub much deliberation, before a final decision upon it can be made. Your committee have also under their consideration a proposal to The preceding detail comprises nearly all that your com-jects which will still require mittee have to report with respect to the transactions of the society in foreign parts. Under this head, however, it remains to mention, that they have dis-print the New Testament in patched 700 copies of the New modern Greek. Testament in Spanish to Gibraltar, for distribution among the Spaniards. The committee had reason to believe they would be received, as they had information that 600 Spanish Testaments, furnished by this society to respectable individuals, and by them transmitted to Monte Video, had been sought for with avidity by the inhabitants of that country; that even priests had come for them," and had recommended them as "good and fair / copies." A large supply of English Bibles and New Testaments has also been sent to Gibraltar for the use of the garrison. In reporting their proceedings within the united kingdom, your committee have the satisfaction to announce that the editions of the scriptures in Welsh and Gaelic have been completed; they have further the pleasure to remark,hat applications have been already received for more than half the impression; and they have no doubt but that the whole will be wanted after the copies now called for have had the advantage of circulation. Of this edition 500 Gaelic Bibles and 800 New Testaments have been voted to different correspondents of your committee in Nova Scotia and Canada, for care of your committee, may sale, or gratuitous distribution, have occurred, they take this at their discretion, among the opportunity of earnestly requestpoor Highlanders in that part of ing the members and friends of the world. the society to communicate any It has been the anxious wish typographical or other errors and endeavor of your commit-which they may observe, to their tee, that the editions of the assistant secretary, Mr. Tarn. scriptures printed by the Brit-The observation of an omission ish and Foreign Bible Society in the Welsh Bible, which was should be exempt as far as pos-immediately corrected, has inible from errors; and with a duced them to make this review to the future correction of quest. any, which, notwithstanding the [To be continued.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE POETRY. CONNECTICUT EVANGELICAL MAGA ZINE. THE following paraphrastic version of one of the most beau tiful Elegies* in our language, is from the pen of Bishop Lowth, and must be an acceptable present to all your readers of taste, if not already familiar to them. AS pants the wearied hart for cooling springs, On briny tears my famish'd soul has fed, Oft dwell my thoughts on those thrice happy days, Why throb my heart? why sink my sadd'ning soul? By Jordan's banks with devious steps I stray, *Forty second Psalm, In rapid floods the vernal torrents roll, And dash my shatter'd bark from shore to shore. Yet thy soft mercies ever in my sight, My heart shall gladden thro' the tedious day; Rock of my hope, great solace of my heart, Hymn to Enjoyment. COME Enjoyment, teach thy nature, Art thou like the meteor glaring, Why dost shun fame's crowded temple, Why the proud and envied palace, Stranger, dost thou ever fly? Why the breast o'erspread with honors, Bosoms ne'er by conscience stung? Why the heirs of golden plenty, Why the jocund sons of song? Envied guest, reveal thy nature, Not for fear-the crown'd head courts thee, Not for want of admiration; Courtiers, slaves, kings, peasants, villains; Yet but one of thee lives worthy, All else seek in earth the treasure, Hence the breasts that never glitter'd And where God is-lov'd, possess'd, God is love, and love makes blissful, Be this heart then, glorious spirit, Haste the hour when love imperfect, Fruitful, blissful, glorious hour!!! 1808. Donations to the Missionary Society of Connecticut. Dec. 16. Willington Female Association.......................... 10. 50 David Harrower, collected in new settlements....8 50 $19.00 MR [No. 2. paigns at the Northward, and husbanded with rigid economy his earnings in this and other methods, he at length deemed it prudent, to think seriously of qualifying himself for the ministry. As it respected a liberal education, this was happily effected, and in 1765 he received the honors of Yale-College. R. BRAY was born in Branford, Sept. 22, O. S. 1738. His father was lost in Long-Island sound, when he was about three years of age, leaving him and a brother under the care and instruction of their mother. She afterwards removed to Far- During his college-life he was mington, where her children exceedingly intent in the pursuit were brought up. In providing of knowledge, and especially in for them, it was judged best, as that of the holy religion which with her husband the greatest he loved and professed. From part of his property was lost, the time of commencing his stuthat the subject of these memoirs dies, he kept his eye fixed on should learn a mechanical branch the sacred desk, as the field in of business. He accordingly ser- which he thirsted to labor, and ved an apprenticeship. During was assiduous in those, which this time he was impressed with would more directly qualify him a deep concern for the welfare for usefulness in this station.of his soul, and having obtained Of the church in college he was a comfortable hope, at the age an active and exemplary memof nineteen, made a public pro-ber, and in academic pursuits in fession of religion. As his cir- general, made reputable procumstances were straitened, it gress. is probable, however great his desire might be, that he thought at this time, but little of attempting to obtain a public edugation. Having served two camVOL. II. No. 2. In Feb. 1766, he was licensed to preach the gospel. In April, he was invited to supply the pulpit at North-Guilford, vacant by the dismission of the Rev. John F |